The Patriots spent the pick that matters most on Jayden Daniels, and a roster that has been waiting on a passer can start to take shape. They moved the roster forward and banked a B for it.

Mitchell falling to them is the kind of break a good board is built to catch. The cost of the Rouse reach is exactly the players who went right after him. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped interior defensive lineman, which is a strange place to end up.

The trade work was a quiet net positive.

A tidy weekend of work that should hold up just fine.